the largest owners and operators in the
sector. He is recognized as an expert in
the financial and operational analysis
of educational housing and auxiliary
facilities, and is often asked to lecture
and participate in roundtable discussions for such organizations as the
Association of College and University
Housing Officers-International and
the National Association of College
and University Business Officers,
among others. He has consulted with
nd financial firms on student housing-re-n has also written several articles and white
ousing, specifically concerning the balanc-st, risk and flexibility.
ROBERT CLARK
As president of Peak Campus Management, Bob Clark is passionate about people. “The soul and performance of the company is
directly linked to attracting and retaining great people,” he has
said. “Our people-centric culture
starts during the recruiting relationship phase and continues daily with
an intimate company-to-employee
relationship through simply treating
employees like we know we would
like to be treated. We know that getting the people right trumps getting
the real estate right.” At Peak
Campus, Clark is responsible for all
national management services and
brings years of experience in multifamily residential housing to the
organization. Prior to leading the
day-to-day operations of Peak Campus, he held varying executive
roles over the past seven years at Place Properties, including successful oversight of the company’s finance, acquisition and management functions. He also controls company-level finance and
accounting operations including project finance, corporate
finance, financial planning, property accounting, risk management, legal matters, and directing acquisition activities.
JON CLAYTON
Jon Clayton is the co-founder and principal of Fountain
Residential Partners, where he was responsible for the development of over $700 million of high-density
and garden-style student housing projects as well as traditional multifamily
communities across the US. Previously,
he served as development VP for Place
Properties, where he headed the development operations for the Dallas office,
focusing on new projects in the western
and central US. He has collaborated with
major development companies such as
JPI Student Living Development, Echelon
Residential and Carbon Residential. He
is well versed in every aspect of student
housing development, acquisitions, and asset management
from market and site/asset selection through the underwriting
and permitting processes, to construction, lease-up and asset
management oversight.
NATHAN S. COLLIER
Operating under the Collier Cos. and
Paradigm Group umbrellas, founder and
chairman Nathan Collier has been in multifamily acquisition, development, operation, and finance for most of his business
life. Since buying a single duplex while he
was in college, Collier has assembled a
still-growing portfolio of approximately
8,500 apartments across Florida as well as
in Norman, OK. He has endowed the Nathan S. Collier Master of
Science in Real Estate program at University of Florida’s
Warrington College of Business, where he is an adjunct professor.
The lead author of Construction Funding: The Process of Real Estate
Development, Appraisal and Finance, Collier also sits on the boards
of the U.F. Center for Real Estate Studies and National Multi
Housing Council.
JOSEPH M. COYLE
When the Michaels Organization
created a new business unit dedicated to excellence in student housing, they brought Joseph Coyle on
board to head up the new company,
University Student Living LLC. An
experienced leader with more than
20 years’ experience in the housing
and development industry, Coyle
previously served as president of
College Park Communities, the student housing division of GMH
Communities Trust, where he also held the position of EVP. At
the time, GMH Communities Trust, based in Newtown Square,
PA, was one of the largest specialty housing companies focused
on providing off-campus housing to college and university students. At Michaels, Coyle is focused on expanding development
and management of student housing communities through pub-lic-private partnerships with colleges and universities. He also
oversees fee-management opportunities available from other private student housing owners as well as acquisition opportunities
in this market segment.
BRIAN DINERSTEIN
Brian Dinerstein is a principal at the
Dinerstein Cos. and is responsible for
generating all new business in the company’s student housing and conventional apartment divisions. He came to
the firm with experience working in
business development at Internet
Capital Group and in the real estate
division of Wells Fargo Bank. The
Dinerstein Cos. currently has $1.2 billion of assets under development predominantly in Central Florida, Southern California and Texas.
Sterling University Housing, a wholly owned subsidiary of the
Dinerstein Cos., has developed 26,000 student beds in 26 states
with another 4,200 beds under way. Since 2004, the company has
sold 45 student properties to a multitude of buyers; it’s especially
proud of the fact that 84% of its sales have been to repeat buyers.
Dinerstein sits on the boards of the National Multi Housing
Council and the Firefighter’s Foundation of Houston. He’s also
on the Urban Land Institute’s Multifamily Blue Council.
